{"id":1770,"date":"2013-05-02T21:32:56","date_gmt":"2013-05-02T21:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/?p=1770"},"modified":"2013-05-02T21:32:56","modified_gmt":"2013-05-02T21:32:56","slug":"after-billions-of-clicks-players-near-the-center-of-peter-molyneuxs-cube-gamelife-wired-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/02\/after-billions-of-clicks-players-near-the-center-of-peter-molyneuxs-cube-gamelife-wired-com\/","title":{"rendered":"After Billions of Clicks, Players Near the Center of Peter Molyneux&#8217;s Cube | Game|Life | Wired.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin-top: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.999999046325684px; line-height: 20px; background-color: #ffffff;\">When we last looked at\u00a0<cite style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">Curiosity \u2014 What\u2019s Inside the Cube?<\/cite>, we were curious to know why\u00a0<a style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #007ca5; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/gamelife\/2012\/11\/curiosity\/\" target=\"_blank\">half a million people<\/a>\u00a0were compulsively working together to tap and destroy the imaginary green cube in this iPhone app.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.999999046325684px; line-height: 20px; background-color: #ffffff;\">A few months later, they haven\u2019t stopped. In fact, ten times that many people are now taking part in this \u201cexperiment.\u201d Some are drawing crude pictures on the cube\u2019s surface. Others are just trying to break the cube and get to its center. Still others are paying real money in an attempt to thwart them by adding layers back onto the cube. Today, its developer told Wired that just 50 layers of the cube now remain.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.999999046325684px; line-height: 20px; background-color: #ffffff;\">The end is near. But what happens when\u00a0<cite style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px;\">Curiosity<\/cite>\u2018s cube is gone?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/gamelife\/2013\/05\/curiosity-cube-molyneux\/?utm_source=feedly\">After Billions of Clicks, Players Near the Center of Peter Molyneux&#8217;s Cube | Game|Life | Wired.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we last looked at\u00a0Curiosity \u2014 What\u2019s Inside the Cube?, we were curious to know why\u00a0half a million people\u00a0were compulsively working together to tap and destroy the imaginary green cube in this iPhone app. A few months later, they haven\u2019t stopped. In fact, ten times that many people are now taking part in this \u201cexperiment.\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-sy","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}